Snail Value Chain Company Wins Best Entrepreneur Award In Northern Rwanda

The founder of a business that turns land snails into edible dishes is set to expand his business after winning a seed funding of Rwf 1.5 million at the provincial level.

Dominique Xavio Imbabazi, the proprietor of Golden Insect Ltd in Musanze district, who a few years ago started a new business that supplies edible snail meat to hotels, emerged among the best business pitches in the just concluded Youth Connect Rwanda 2021 entrepreneurship awards in the Northern Province.

The Youth Connect awards is an annual entrepreneurship program organized by the Ministry of Youth and Culture in partnership with Youth Connect Africa Hub, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the aid agency of the Korean Government among other partners.

For the past years, Imbabazi says that he has been able to promote the business and attract clients (especially hotels) in the province and the city of Kigali, which has seen the snail business pick up as a new nutrition alternative.

Snails contain significant sources of protein, low fat and are also good sources of iron, calcium, Vitamin A, among others and globally this dish is commonly found in Italy, Spain, Vietnam, Portugal, Greece and Malta though dishes are  prepared differently.

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